The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 6
But the princess saw what was passing in his mind, and whispered to him:
Who acts: princess, youth · What happens: see, pass, whisper, mind · To what, where: mind, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 passing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passing | aux |
| 7 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whispered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 whispered | cc |
| 13 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 whispered | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pass | past · progressive | youth's mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | |||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | the princess not said here | youth | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | mind | youth | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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